<p>Sarajevo: Every Friday, folk musician Enes Salman performs the Sevdalinka, an ancient form of love song from Bosnia and Herzegovina that this month was included in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/unesco">UNESCO's</a> National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.</p><p>Sevdalinka, often referred to as the Balkan Blues, is a melancholic urban love song dating back to the 16th century. It is a mix of South Slavic oral poetry and the music of the Ottoman Empire.</p><p>Salman is one of a few musicians who are keeping the old tradition alive.</p><p>"I have been playing and singing Sevdalinka since I was 14," Salman said before a recent performance.</p>.Maharashtra steps up efforts to get UNESCO tag for Lonar lake.<p>Sevdalinka, often performed a capella or accompanied by traditional instruments like a lute, has been carried from generation to generation through performances at family gatherings.</p><p>In recent years, novel interpretations of Sevdalinka by a few younger musicians have brought it to global audiences.</p><p>One of them is Damir Imamovic, whose father and grandfather were famous Sevdalinka bards. Imamovic won awards in 2020/2021 for the European best album by world music magazines Songlines and Transglobal.</p><p>Imamovic promotes Sevdalinka internationally through his SevdahLab project, which drummed up support for the song's inclusion on the UNESCO's World Heritage list.</p><p>"I realised how little the public knows about the Sevdalinka genre and wanted to reveal the story behind that music," he said.</p><p>Zanin Berbic, 28, an ethno-musicologist who plays saz, a long-necked lute used in Ottoman classical music, says that Sevdalinka tells the story of Bosnia's history.</p><p>"Most of my days I spend either singing or playing Sevdalinka songs or reading or talking about them," said Berbic, who works as a custodian in the music department of Bosnia's Regional Museum in Sarajevo.</p><p>"Sevdalinka is my life."</p>
<p>Sarajevo: Every Friday, folk musician Enes Salman performs the Sevdalinka, an ancient form of love song from Bosnia and Herzegovina that this month was included in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/unesco">UNESCO's</a> National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage.</p><p>Sevdalinka, often referred to as the Balkan Blues, is a melancholic urban love song dating back to the 16th century. It is a mix of South Slavic oral poetry and the music of the Ottoman Empire.</p><p>Salman is one of a few musicians who are keeping the old tradition alive.</p><p>"I have been playing and singing Sevdalinka since I was 14," Salman said before a recent performance.</p>.Maharashtra steps up efforts to get UNESCO tag for Lonar lake.<p>Sevdalinka, often performed a capella or accompanied by traditional instruments like a lute, has been carried from generation to generation through performances at family gatherings.</p><p>In recent years, novel interpretations of Sevdalinka by a few younger musicians have brought it to global audiences.</p><p>One of them is Damir Imamovic, whose father and grandfather were famous Sevdalinka bards. Imamovic won awards in 2020/2021 for the European best album by world music magazines Songlines and Transglobal.</p><p>Imamovic promotes Sevdalinka internationally through his SevdahLab project, which drummed up support for the song's inclusion on the UNESCO's World Heritage list.</p><p>"I realised how little the public knows about the Sevdalinka genre and wanted to reveal the story behind that music," he said.</p><p>Zanin Berbic, 28, an ethno-musicologist who plays saz, a long-necked lute used in Ottoman classical music, says that Sevdalinka tells the story of Bosnia's history.</p><p>"Most of my days I spend either singing or playing Sevdalinka songs or reading or talking about them," said Berbic, who works as a custodian in the music department of Bosnia's Regional Museum in Sarajevo.</p><p>"Sevdalinka is my life."</p>